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Delnies
Fishing Bothy (Early 20th Century), Icehouse (19th Century) (1877)
Site Name Delnies
Classification Fishing Bothy (Early 20th Century), Icehouse (19th Century) (1877)
Canmore ID 15158
Site Number NH85NW 6
NGR NH 84821 56589
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15158
- Council Highland
- Parish Nairn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH85NW 6 8482 5658.
(NH 8482 5658) Icehouse (NAT)
OS 6" map, Nairnshire, 2nd ed., (1906)
A round earthwork at Delnies, now the site of the icehouse of a salmon-fishery, is traditionally regarded as a Roman camp.
G Bain 1893.
The former ice-house, now a store, is situated on a natural whin-covered hillock which contains no man-made features.
No further information obtained.
Visited by OS (NKB) 22 November 1965.
Field Visit (May 1978)
Delnies 2 NH 848 565 NH 85 NW 6
The 'earthwork' at Delnies which was formerly interpreted as a Roman camp appears to be a natural hillock covered by whin and mutilated by the construction of an ice-house and a golf-course green.
RCAHMS 1978, visited May 1978
Bain 1893, 32
